Ujanja Ni Uhai (Hustling Is Life)

GSM working on Galaxy Tab 7 Plus CM9 alpha

After much discussion with locerra and poisike on XDA and github, I’ve got GSM telephony and data working on the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus on my super-alpha CyanogenMod 9 port. Check out the thread on XDA forums for more info (and downloads!).

Calls, SMS, and USSD requests all seem to be working reasonably well. Here’s a picture of me demonstrating how it works to my girlfriend:

“Can you hear me now?!”

Data seems to work too. Here are a few screenshots from the web browser:

Our usually-evil-but-sometimes-good overlords

mjanja.ch (for the lulz)

Why not?

If you’re curious how I got it up and running (like maybe you’re starting a new CyanogenMod port for your device), check out these commits to my p6200 repo on github: